1. Introduction

This is the second installment of a two part article on
TiECon2012 Mobile sessions. The first article covered mobile operators,
emerging trends, applications and opportunities

This article will focus on mobile enterprise deployment status,
directions, critical issues and corporate apps. We'll also
briefly revisit monetization of mobile apps and highlight the
significance of social/mobile gaming.

2. Mobile Panel #2 -Mobile IT and Best Practices
for Mobile Enterprise Deployments

Abstract: The enterprise mobility market
is predicted to reach $36B by 2015. The proliferation of mobile
devices and the demand for apps are making mobile device and app
management a core part of network operations within the
enterprise. Successful companies will see enterprise mobility
become the foundation for real business transformation. The complex
requirements of enterprise mobility is leading to the birth of a
new profession, Mobile IT, which is being chartered with driving
this business transformation.

This session examined key aspects that enterprises need to
evaluate in their mobile deployments as well as the opportunities
for entrepreneurs in this space.

Panel Discussion:

Several panelists made position statements
related to the mobile enterprise:

Juan-José de Juan (JJ) kicked off the discussion by stating
that mobility has become a key driver for enterprise
innovation. Many businesses, all over the world, have started
to create their own enterprise mobility apps and services.

Salil Jain opined that comprehensive solutions were becoming
available for the mobile enterprise, which Vodafone sees as a core
growth area for years to come.

Ojas Rege said that significant change was taking place and
that "the mobile enterprise would continue to grow dramatically."&
nbsp; Business customers are organizing themselves around
mobile centers of excellence, especially with respect to
security.

JJ responded that the challenges to companies came when
employees started bringing iPhones and iPads to work.
Emergency plans to deal with BYOD had to be formulated by
enterprises (for company security, separation of work and personal
use, monitoring the enterprise WiFi network, etc). The key
issue to ask is "How can mobility benefit your company?"

Salil said SAP has one of the biggest mobile enterprise
deployments in the world, with over 20K iPads, 13K iPhones and
thousands of RIM Blackberry's. He said that mobile is
enabling SAP employees to be more productive at work.

Chenxi next asked, "What are the kinds of mobile
enterprise apps that make sense?"

At first, no one attempted to answer this question. Perhaps,
because it's too early to know. Later, the panelists were
asked to reconsider this issue in light of the tremendous revenue
growth forecast for mobile enterprise apps in coming years.
They considered internal productivity apps as well as sales
apps.

Ojas believes that enterprise mobility has been redefined by
the transition away from Blackberry's to iPhones and Android based
smart phones. This will usher in a whole new set of vertical
industry apps (TBD) that can run on the new smart phones and media
tablets.

JJ later said that "the simplest apps would be most pervasive
in the mobile enterprise."

Rajiv likes mobile extensions of back office apps, e.g. "mobile
post it notes." He also proposed the conversion of enterprise
desktop apps to run on mobile devices (that would likely take a
complete software rewrite to run on the very different mobile
OSs/software platforms).

Salil said that once there are 15-20 enterprise apps for a
specific company, the set becomes difficult to manage and keep
track of. He suggested companies consider integrating
selected enterprise apps into a "framework of apps" for easier
management and user selection.

Chenxi observed that the fragmented mobility market (with
different mobile OS's/platforms) is a big challenge for
enterprises. Does the BYOD movement increase
cost for companies?

Rajiv Taori responded that BYOB is about user satisfaction. The
cost impact isn't clear and won't be for six to eight moths into an
enterprised approved BYOD program.

Ojas opined that "extended refresh rates will have the biggest
impact on (corporate) costs." By this he meant the replacement
cycle for smart phones/ tablets, which is now about 1 year vs 3 to
5 years for notebook PCs.

Ojas clarified this last comment in an email after TiECon: "
Employees will want a new phone/tablet every 18 months - it's
fashion, it's consumer speed (vs. what IT is used to which is
replace user equipment every 3-5 years). If it's BYOD, then
the company doesn't bear that cost (and that's the key cost
savings). If it's not BYOD, then the company has two options:

a] Buy new devices every 12-18 months for the employee -&
gt;really expensive!

b] Don't buy new devices -> UNHAPPY users

So BYOD might save some unexpected corporate costs over the long
term plus keep users happy."

Salil was quite definitive: "Most global companies are not
prepared to effectively support BYOD." It's mostly a North American
phenomenon, he added.

JJ chimed in by saying that BYOD will bring rigidity to the
enterprise, rather than flexibility.

Ojas added his two cents: "User experience will be the key to
success of BYOD. Privacy safeguards are essential (so that
employees personal information is not compromised)."

This brought up a huge concern: the separation of
personal from corporate data, especially the leakage of
corporate information to employee's personal mobile devices.
How can personal and corporate data be separated?

Ojas suggested that be done by a software layer above the OS,
but below the mobile app layer. This is because he thinks
most enterprises will have multiple mobile platforms (Apple's iOS,
Android, Windows Mobile, etc).

Salil suggested personal/corporate data separation (accessed on
BYODs) be done by each mobile application program. (But what
about all the personal apps that employees might be running on
their smart phones while at work? Are those all to be retrofitted
too- good luck!)

Author's Note: A BYOD survey conducted by
Heavy Reading and sponsored by AMDOCS concluded that operators have
a role to play in making BYOD more effective for corporate
customers. "BYOD has been gaining momentum as consumers
want to bring their favorite smartphones and tablets to work, and
with enterprises anticipating benefits such as increased
productivity and employee satisfaction, we surely expect this trend
to continue to grow," said Ari Banerjee, senior analyst at Heavy
Reading. "But BYOD creates new complexities for both the enterprise
and the service provider who must support features such as device
care, bill split, security, shared loyalty and data plans and
differentiated quality of service. If service providers can
overcome the technological challenges of providing these features,
the enhanced customer experience will lead to huge gains in
customer satisfaction and loyalty."

Chenxi raised the notion of a "personal cloud"
that's accessable on mobile devices. With companies like
Dropbox providing file sharing, she said that "the personal cloud
is invading the enterprise."

There are a lot of interesting possibilities when employees move
files at work. However, there's a huge security risk with
sharing/uploading files stored in a personal cloud. Box.net and
Dropbox were cited as two leaders in personal cloud storage.
Private cloud providers might also be considered, she added.

Regarding the protection of mobile content
while at work, Chenxi said that "DRM (Digital Rights Management)
never really took off."

Chenxi asked, "What's the trend for (big data) analytics
on mobile devices?" The reporting of analyics
results could be shown as a dashboard on a mobile device, Chenxi
suggested. (Of course, screen size will be a factor in what can be
displayed.)

Salil suggested uses of analytics in the mobile enterprise
included: forecasting, context and location based procurement, and
supply chain management. Data from mobile users would be
collected by the corporation for these purposes, he added.

Chenxi asked, "Are enterprises building HTML5 (web based) or
native apps (running directly on the mobile device) for their
employees' mobile devices?" (As reported in the part I
article, the equivalent question was asked in the first Mobile
Panel Session without any definitive answers).

A more fundamental question is what's the user experience to
drive mass adoption of a given set of mobile enterprise apps?
The answer may determine whether HTML5 or native apps are developed
for the mobile enterprise market.

Ojas said that native app development dominates the mobile
enterprise now. But HTML5 will progress such that the two
mechanisms will continue on a parallel track for atleast awhile
longer.

The final question from the moderator was: "What are the
implications of heavy mobile data users in the enterprise?"
What might need to be upgraded or enhanced?

Panelists cited three areas for corporate concern here:

Network infrastructure must be able to support heavy mobile
data traffic (assuming it's for company business and not personal
use).

Abstract: With the explosive growth in
Apple's iOs App Store and the Android Marketplace close to a
BILLONS "Apps" are now available for download. How does a
developer or a publisher of these "Apps" get discovered and more
importantly make MONEY? This panel discussed how developers
are monetizating their Apps in new ways, working to leverage the
platforms, integrating with various social networks and exploiting
various advertising/ marketing techniques.

4. Panel on Social Gaming: The Next
Frontier?

This panel was in the TiECon Social track, but its focus was on
the future of mobile gaming. Note that most on-line games are now
played on mobile devices due to the proliferation of smart phones
and tablets in recent years.

Karl Mehta, Founder and CEO of Playspan (VISA) said, "The
current crop of social games is very elementary, shallow, light
weight games. The high quality, deep rooted games to attract
serious gamers are yet to come."

Rick Thompson, an investor and entrepreneur with Signia Capital
opined that "mobile is the new frontier for social gaming and an
important part of our investment strategy," added.

AJW Comment: We had heard at a WCA hosted
VC panel on the wireless industry, that mobile gaming was hot.

Never having played a game on a mobile device (or any computer
for that matter), this author was somewhat surprised. But
nonetheless, mobile gaming is a very healthy business.

Revenues for mobile gaming are expected to skyrocket from $5
billion to $16 billion in 2016 according to ABI research.

The number of U.S. mobile gamers has increased from 75 million
to 101 million, according to Newzoo (a market research firm focused
purely on the gaming industry). Out of those 101 million gamers, 69
percent play on smartphones and 21 percent on tablets. The mobile
gaming market has seen a large increase in the conversion of "
non-paying" players to "paying" players. The total number of paying
players is the U.S. is now 37 million. The growing number of paying
players shows excellent revenue growth potential for mobile gaming
companies.

One of the highlights of TiECon2012 (The Indus Entrepreneurs
annual conference- May 18-19th in Santa Clara, CA) was the Mobile
Track. All important aspects of the mobile ecosystem, its
present status and future directions were explored in depth during
three TiECon mobile track panel sessions:

What are the emerging trends, applications and opportunities in
mobile?

Considerations for deploying mobile in the enterprise and
vertical industry apps.

How to distribute and monetize your mobile app?

There was also a TiECon panel session on social gaming that was
very much mobile related. For example, who will be the Zynga of
mobile? What's the intersection of mobile and social? Who will
control the mobile platform?

Panel participants first debated the role of the mobile
network operator, who this author believes is between a
rock and a hard place. Operators have to subsidize smart phones and
upgrade the capacity of their networks to accommodate the
spectacular increases in mobile data traffic. But they are not
generating any revenues from premium services or value added
offerings that make use of the increased bandwidth they must
provide to their data plan subscribers. Here are a few
take-aways:

Anil Doradla: Operators are only getting increased revenues
from data plans with higher priced tiers. Currently the
mobile operator has been reduced to a dumb bit pipe provider, but
the jury is still out as to whether operators will
continue as such (or provide value added services, share
in mobile ecosystem monetization).

Ben Riga: Mobile has become a global platform, but
operators don't have the necessary information (location, customer
preferences, etc) to do target marketing.

Lars Kamp: Mobile Operator business depends on the
country and their business objectives. Over-the-top
(OTTP) content is a severe problem for operators, because they have
to carry that high bandwidth data/video content but don't
get any revenue from doing so.

Erik Ekudden: To ensure a good user experience, operators
need to upgrade mobile network capacity; else the network will be a
bottleneck (in many cases, it already is, e.g. AT&T's 3G
network).

The next area of discussion was Mobile Apps, App
Discovery and App Stores. Here were the key panelist
comments:

New challenges and opportunities are emerging, especially with
bigger screen sizes on mobile devices.

There are different ways to monetize apps. What role will each
of these play: analytics? CRM? Tracking user preferences? Location
Based advertising? Virtual goods? On line gaming? Lots of
questions, but few answers.

The use of embedded performance analytics to get insights into
the user was considered essential to success of properly monetizing
apps.

Securing ongoing subscription fees to replace one-off download
sales was seen as a challenge, even for mobile gaming leaders like
Zynga.

Anil was bearish on the app store business model. The low
barrier to entry encourages many app developers, but only a small
minority succeed. The key players are Apple and Samsung who have
55% market share of mobile devices. So a developer needs to get the
app on those app store platforms.

Anil said that enterprise centric apps have more potential than
consumer apps (we definitely agree).

Erik opined that apps which require QoS support are critical to
creating a great user experience. That implies premium real time
apps that operators haven't figured out how to charge for.

Mobile app discovery was seen as a critical issue, as apps are
not indexed in app stores and can't be easily found by potential
users.

Ben said that getting visibility for the "right set of apps" is
important. He suggested integration of app discovery into mobile
search.

A directory to navigate apps will be a complex piece of
software. It might have to take into account data sharing between
apps.

The challenge of 'app discovery' across many platforms seems to
be a throwback to the early days of the Internet - before website
discovery was solved by Google (and other) search engines.

Anil pointed out the "duopoly" of Apple and Samsung causes most
apps to be developed for their platforms (iOS and Android,
respectively). So it is the apps for those two platforms that most
need to be discovered.

Many customers are writing their own apps which are more
personalized and are inherently discovered.

Consumers have an inalienable right to privacy, but there are "
trust issues" with app stores that maintain user profiles. Might
personal information be used for app discovery, as it is now for "
personal web searches?"

Moderator Raj Singh next asked, "Is HTML5 becoming a
parallel mobile web?" He explained that HTML5 and the
hybrid web/native model is what is being most adopted by app
developers. For example, the use of HTML5 for the front-end of
the app, but wrapping it as a native app (like
the LinkedIn Mobile app). Ben said that HTML5 is the
direction we're all headed, but neither he nor any of the panelists
were specific on its forthcoming role in mobile apps or mobile
platform development. An audience member and panelist
were debating if future mobile web apps would be based on
HTML5. While no one denied that, there were no predictions on
how long it might take.

Raj continued: To what extent is the Apple-Samsung
duopoly driving the mobile ecosystem and user choice? What
platforms and device makers will be viable in the future?

Matt said it all depends on Apple's support (of embedded NFC
and mobile payments) in its iPhones.

Anil took a bearish view, citing too many different players
involved in the mobile payments ecosystem (operators, handset
makers, Visa & other credit/ debit card companies, banks, and
app developers). All would have to use an integrated mobile
payments system which doesn't exist yet.

Summing up, Raj told this author, "Once the mobile wallet
system is figured out things may change, but the mobile
billing may continue to be problematic."
Security was also seen as a critical issue for mobile payments

Raj asked if Amazon would be relevant in the "
App Store universe?"

Lars said he was bearish on 3rd party app stores (as Amazon's
would be). But he was bullish on enterprise app stores, presumably
from 3rd parties.

Looking to the future of mobile markets……….
.

Matt said that Norwest had invested in mobile health related
start-ups. 2% of global GDP is coming from mobile health and that
number is growing.

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Satyaranarayan Gangaram Pitroda!
The last name rings a bell. Yes - it is Sam Pitroda, the advisor to
the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure
and Innovation. Sam Pitroda was single-handedly responsible for the
Communication revolution that happened in India and the reason
behind why the Indian economy went on a hockey-stick curve of
growth, technological leaps and bounds evolution, opening up to
globalization and for being where it is today. Meaning while the US
and the world go through economic recession, India is still
booming, salaries still sky-high; despite the 1 billion+
population, the job economy still booming and the Indian stock and
real-estate markets on a steady growth curve every year.

The Rajiv Gandhi era

In 1987, when Rajiv Gandhi became
the Prime Minister, he brought with him young blood and filled the
key roles around him with eager, go-getting ministers and
executives who wanted to change the world - well, India. Among
them was Sam Pitroda, who Rajiv Gandhi appointed as his Technology
advisor. And with that began the modernization and globalization of
India. As technology swept like a wave through banks and
universities, railways and government offices, telephone booths
spread through the country with a viral vengeance and
telecommunications became affordable and accessible to the common
man even in the remotest of villages. As technology became more
accessible, penetrating the poorest strata of society, Rajiv Gandhi
was hailed as the young hero of the nation and Sam Pitroda, the
father of the Communications Revolution.

During this time, Dr. Pitroda
headed six technology missions related to telecommunications,
water, literacy, immunization, dairy and oilseeds and became the
founder and first chairman of India's Telecom Commission.

The Early years

Sam Pitroda had lived in the US
since 1964. He did his MS in Electrical Engineering from the
Illinois Institute of Technology. It was here that he founded C-SAM
and Wescom (later acquired by Rockwell International). He did
research on telecommunications and handheld computing, invented
digital switching and in 1975, invented the Electronic Diary. In
1983, he designed his own computer-themed card game called
Compucards, which used binary numbers instead of decimals.

In 1984, he was invited to return
to India by the then Prime Minister, Smt Indira Gandhi. He came
back and founded 'The Center for Development of Telematics'
(C-DOT), which triggered the Communication Revolution in India.

The Decade of Innovation

Dr. Sam Pitroda's excellence has
been revered by one and all. This was self evident when in 2004,
the newly elected Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan
Singh invited him
to head the National Knowledge
Commissionof India
and appointed him as Advisor to the PM of India.

In 2010, the President of India
declared this as 'The Decade of Innovation'. The PM approved
setting up of a National Innovation Council under the chairmanship
of Sam Pitroda. The mission of this council is to develop a
national strategy on innovation with a focus on an Indian model of
inclusive growth.

Awards and accolades

Dr. Pitroda holds close to 100
worldwide patents.

Among the many awards and accolades
he has received, are two honorary D.Sc. degrees by Andhra
University and Sambalpur University, IEEE Communication Society
Award and the Skoch Challenger Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009,
he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India for his contribution to Science and
Engineering.

The Road
ahead

Dr. Pitroda heads today, the Expert
Group for Modernization of Indian Railways - the 4th largest Railways in the
world, which carry over 30 million passengers and
2.8 million tons of freight daily, through a network
of over 70,000 miles, with 1.4 million employees that man it. He is
also the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force under the Ministry
of Power and a founding Commissioner of the United Nations
Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

The contributions of Dr. Sam
Pitroda, are priceless and endless. It is no wonder that he has
been talked about by Times of India and others, as being a hot
potential candidate for the next President of India.

Come hear Dr. Pitroda talk
about innovation and revolutions in an emerging, third-world
economy. Could he give us clues on how we could turn the US &
global economies around? Do not miss the Closing Keynote of this year's TiECon 2012 (May
18 - 19, 2012), where you could be hearing the father of the Indian
Communication revolution and possibly the future President of
India, talk about how he changed the course of history and how we
could do it here, all over again.

As
you are already aware, on May 18, two big events taking
place in Silicon Valley -Facebook IPO
and TiEcon.

Which
one are you joining?You have a choice:

You can just watch Facebook IPO from the sideline on May 18th or create a
foundation for IPO of your company by coming to
TiEcon on May 18th and/or
19th.

I
am attending TiEcon 2012and
speaking atTiEYouth
Session,
working with young and not-so-young alike about how to go about
creating your own big startup and make the world more
prosperous.Needless to say there is lot more that can help you
succeed in your entrepreneurial venture.

TiEcon
is one such event that provides inspiring keynotes, educational
sessions on entrepreneurship and various industry verticals and
offers you the best networking opportunity with fellow
entrepreneurs, investors and your prospects! There are formal
networking events like Mentor Connect,
Attendee Connect and Investor
Connect besides many informal opportunities to
network.

I
look forward to seeing many of you at TiEcon 2012.

Vinod
Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures

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Glad to be part of#TiEchat. I am excited about what we have
lined up for @TiEconthis year

Q> What's the theme of #Social
track in #TiEcon 2012? How did you go about deciding
this sessions for #Social track?I spent
considerable time with my co-chair @gokulrto narrow down topics in#social. Gaming, commerce and
opportunities in social

Q> What were the criterion for speakers in the #Social
track?We selected the
best amongst entrepreneurs and VC's in the#socialspace to provide a diverse set of
insights @TiEcon.

Q> Emerging Trends & Investment
Opportunities panel @Rajil @joshelman looks interesting. Expecting more
speakers?We are saving the
best for last in this panel. If you havent registered for
@TiEconyou should.

Q> How did you decide the 3 panels in the #Cloud
track ? Is there any theme ?For the#Cloudtrack, we started with where cloud
is today and show where the most exciting opportunities areWe then got the best
possible speakers for the topics. For instance, we have the CIO of
Verizon Business Services on CIO panelWe also have the EVP
of Cloud from VMWare in the Opportunities panel in the#Cloudtrack

Q> What to expect in Emerging trends & investment
opportunities w/ @raimjlen @shirishsathaye@trailsfootmarks @RMTacc ?The consumerization
panel in#Cloudaddresses public cloud but more
from the perspective of services, not infrastructure

Q> Are you focusing more on enterprise private cloud
or public cloud in your panels ?The CIO panel and
Opportunities panel in#Cloudwill address both private and
public clouds, from infrastructure to SaaS

Q> How did you decide on the Consumerization in the
Enterprise panel compared w/ other potential cloud related
topics?Entrepreneurs we
spoke to wanted to build businesses on the Consumerization trend,
they decided for us
@Manu@lananthThanks for joining and answering
questions in the#TiEChat. I am sure the audience will find
it valuable

'Deepak Chopra? Why is he speaking
at TiEcon?' This wasn't the first time I had heard someone say
this. I was disappointed and at the same time stumped - as to
whether to gawk at the questioner's ignorance, or to marvel at how
narrow and limited was the prevalent understanding of
entrepreneurship, creativity and leadership. 'Dr. Deepak Chopra, is
an adjunct Professor on Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of
Management'. But saying that alone would not do justice to his
ground breaking approach to Entrepreneurship, Management &
Leadership and his contribution to the world.

Discovering Deepak

Despite growing up in India, I
first came across Deepak's work on Spirituality, Science and
Quantum Physics, only after I moved to the US. Watching his videos
at a Mind, Body Health retreat by Anthony Robbins, on the remote
islands of Fiji, I marveled at how Deepak spun magic out of words
and held scientific and spiritual audiences alike, completely
mesmerized. I saw him thereafter on CNN and I decided I needed to
investigate further. On an impulse I called the Chopra Center in
Carlsbad and the wonderful salesman who turned out to be someone
whose life had been transformed by Anthony Robbins, gave me an
incredible deal to a Chopra spiritual retreat.

On Quantum Physics and
Creativity

There began my journey into
understanding Deepak's mysticism and philosophy. I was fascinated
at how he correlated and logically proved to skeptics like me, that
spirituality was really no different from quantum physics at its
most basic level. An electron, one of the basic building blocks of
matter, is either a particle or a wave of energy housed in the
Heisenberg principle of Uncertainty.

Thoughts, neurologists say, are
brain waves, which again are nothing but neuro-chemical impulses of
energy. And we as humans are a combination of 'Energy' of the
cellular and mental kinds. Both these energies coexist and can
travel through matter or space. Is that what explains why multiple
people in different corners of the globe get the same idea at the
same time? Is that what explains two unrelated physicists getting
the same eureka moment at the same time and hence sharing the Nobel
prize?

"Creativity is a process of
transforming raw energy, information, and material of the universe
into something that has never before existed", says Dr. Deepak
Chopra, MD, Physician and now an Entrepreneur, Mystic, Celebrated
and Widely read Author. " Creativity requires a quantum leap in
awareness or consciousness", he adds. "The more consciousness you
have, the more potential you have to create." Creativity and
Innovation, have been exacted by Dr. Deepak Chopra, to a
Science.

The Soul of Leadership

In his new book "The Soul of
Leadership", Deepak offers an entirely new approach to the exciting
possibilities of Leadership. " Great leaders have a vision and the
ability to manifest it", he says. "A leader emerges from within
himself. He matches his inner perception with outer situation and
finds a way to turn his vision into reality". In this book, he
combines spiritual wisdom with modern dynamic psychology and
fills you with ideas you can put into action to bring out
excellence at every level.

He talks about 7 primary roles of a
leader - a Protector, Achiever, Team Builder, Nurturer, Transformer
and finally a Sage and a Seer whose role is pure light or
enlightenment.

"Deepak Chopra opens the door for
today's leaders to access the secrets of success without giving up
who we are", says Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
"Deepak Chopra really gets it - true leadership is not about
popularity, power or profits; but about getting your ego out of the
way so that you can serve the greater good", says Ken Blanchard,
coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Lead with LUV.

Deepak - the Entrepreneur

Dr. Deepak Chopra got thrown into
entrepreneurship when he diverted from his allopathic practice to
become an Ayurvedic mind, body, spirit health practitioner and
teacher and founded the Chopra Institute. In his quest for holistic
universal planetary health, that includes even business,
entrepreneurial and leadership health, he has written over 65 books
with 19 NY Times best-sellers. Wall Street Journal mentioned his
book, 'The Soul of Leadership' as among the 5 best business books of 2011. His latest
foray has been into gaming where his first video game, 'Leela'
(meaning feat), is a groundbreaking concept that combines ancient
relaxation and meditation techniques with technology to bring
focus, energy and balance to your life.

Dr. Deepak Chopra comes, to
enlighten us, to go beyond the boundaries we have set in defining
creativity and innovation. Come hear him speak and take a
boundless, quantum leap into ground-breaking dimensions of
entrepreneurship, leadership and prosperity, at the BreakThrough Thinker's Keynote at this
year's TiECon
2012 (May 18 - 19, 2012)

If there are so many young 11, 12,
13 year old entrepreneurs out there, what's the big deal of yet
another one joining the ranks, you might ask. What
makes Cameron Cohen, the then 11 year
entrepreneur stand out is not so much that he created an iPhone app
and it made money on the app-store. It also wasn't that he learnt
how to write it and built it when lying immobilized in a hospital
bed when recovering from a leg surgery to remove a bone-tumor from
his leg. But what makes Cameron Cohen stand out is that of the
$50,000 the app made, he decided to donate $20,000 to the Chase Child Life Program at the Mattel
Children's Hospital UCLA, where he had his bone tumor surgery. A
noble gesture indeed by a young pre-teen so that the hospital could
purchase MacBooks, iPads, iPods, and video games for teen and
preteen patients to use during their stays.

Come get
Inspired! Special price of only $20 expires this
week.

We will have 2 educational sessions as part of the
TiEYouth Forum.

Badge pickup 1:00PM May
19th with valid student ID. These
sessions are being offered at a
very special pricing
for a limited time and include tickets to the TiECon Innovation
Expo as well.

Session 1: Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs

Society is constantly telling youth
that certain paths will lead to a successful life. The "safe" route
of going to a four year college and finding a stable 9 to 5 job is
usually that path. However, it is now more important than ever that
youth and entrepreneurship become the leading drivers of innovation…
. Learn more

Session 2: Young
Entrepreneur's Guide to Getting Started

Do you have a great idea for a
startup company? How do you make that idea a reality? Hear
successful entrepreneurs who have gone through this experience
personally discuss the steps they took to make their idea come to
life…. Learn more

TiEcon is TiE's premier annual event and is the largest
convention in the world dedicated to entrepreneurs. TiE is a global
organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurs across its
international network.